Inquiry allegations by the numbers
1 The allegation: Construction bosses and engineering firms were asked for a three per cent “cut” off the top of the public works contracts they were awarded. The money went to the Union Montreal party, or to “politics.”
Who has said it (8): Former Infrabec Construction boss Lino Zambito, former city engineer Gilles Surprenant (money went to “executive committee”), former city engineer Luc Leclerc (money went to “politics”), Terramex Inc. boss Michel Leclerc, Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former Genivar engineering boss François Perreault, former BPR Inc. boss Pierre Lavallée, former BPR employee Charles Meunier.
2 The allegation: Bernard Trépanier asked for a onetime, illegal $100,000 or $200,000 donation in 2004 or 2005, to be used for Union Montreal’s reelection campaign.
Who has said it (3): Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former Genivar engineering boss François Perreault, SNC-Lavalin senior vicepresident and general manager Yves Cadotte.
3 The allegation: Frank Zampino, the former head of Montreal’s executive committee, was aware of collusion at city hall and actively participated in that collusion.
Who has said it (8): Former Infrabec Construction boss Lino Zambito, businessman Elio Pagliarulo, Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former city bureaucrat Joseph Farinacci, former city manager Claude Léger, former Genivar engineering boss François Perreault, SNCLavalin senior vice-president and general manager Yves Cadotte, former Dessau VP Rosaire Sauriol.
4 The allegation: Former mayor Gérald Tremblay gave no indication he was aware of any system of collusion.
Who has said it (2): Former Dessau vice-president Rosaire Sauriol, former city manager Claude Léger.
5 The allegation: Gérald Tremblay was probably aware of what was happening, but did everything possible to distance himself from it.
Who has said it (1): Former Union Montreal staffer Martin Dumont.
6 The allegation: Engineering firms colluded, with the help of Bernard Trépanier, to fix their bids on municipal contracts. They agreed in advance who would get which contracts.
Who has said it (7): Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former BPR Inc. boss Pierre Lavallée, former BPR employee Charles Meunier, former Genivar VP François Perreault, SNC-Lavalin senior VP and general manager Yves Cadotte, former Dessau VP Rosaire Sauriol, former Union Montreal financing head Bernard Trépanier.
7 The allegation: A select group of construction companies in Montreal formed a cartel in the 2000s, colluding among themselves to fix their bids on municipal contracts.
Who has said it (10): Former Infrabec Construction boss Lino Zambito, former city engineer Gilles Surprenant, former city engineer Luc Leclerc, Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former city bureaucrat Serge Pourreaux, Terramex Inc. boss Michel Leclerc, Les Excavations Panthère boss André Durocher, construction contractor Piero Di Iorio, construction contractor Jean Théorêt, Comerco Courtage Plus employee Pierre Papineau (referred to the cartel as “some kind of group.”).
8 The allegation: Employees of private companies (and their family members) handed over personal cheques to political parties at the municipal and provincial level, and were then reimbursed by their employers through the payroll, cash or bonuses.
Who has said it (11): Commission investigator André Noël, SNC-Lavalin senior VP and general manager Yves Cadotte, former Dessau VP Rosaire Sauriol, former Genivar VP François Perreault, former Leroux-Beaudoin-Hurens employee Luce Beaudry, former Louisbourg Construction employee Domenic Dentico, former Société développement Angus employee Stéphanie-Anne Gagnon, former Pomerleau Construction employee Richard Dion, former BPR employee Charles Meunier, DJL Construction employees Claude Duhaime and Ghislaine Dujmovic.
9 The allegation: The Montreal Mafia had a hand in the collusion in the city’s construction industry, perhaps (or definitely) taking a “cut” of its own off the top of municipal contracts.
Who has said it (6): Former Infrabec Construction boss Lino Zambito, commission investigator Éric Vecchio, former city engineer Gilles Surprenant, former city engineer Luc Leclerc, businessman Elio Pagliarulo, Quebec City entrepreneur Martin Carrier.
10 The statement: There was no collusion on engineering or construction contracts at the provinciallevel.The process for bidding on and awarding contracts was fair.
Who has said it (7): former Genivar VP François Perreault, former Dessau VP Rosaire Sauriol, SNC-Lavalin senior VP and general manager Yves Cadotte, Génius Conseil boss Michel Lalonde, former BPR Inc. boss Pierre Lavallée, Garnier Construction boss Giuseppe (Joe) Borsellino, assistant deputy minister Chantal Gingras.
11 The allegation: There was collusion on engineering or construction contracts at the provincial level in Quebec.
Who has said it (3): Former Infrabec Construction boss Lino Zambito, head of sales for local company Ipex Michel Cadotte, former anticorruption unit boss Jacques Duchesneau.